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Traditional config classes let properties be mutated anywhere and accept invalid values with no warning. This article shows how to use C# 14's new extension-block syntax with records to build "smart records" - immutable, self-validating configuration models for cleaner, safer ASP.NET Core apps. Link to …
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The Agentic Road to Revenue Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/the-agentic-road-to-revenue
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JasperFx Software is closing in on a couple big releases in the next week or two that are worth talking about now to get last minute feedback and maybe additional requests. Critter Watch 1.1 I’m hoping to have a follow up https://critterwatch.jasperfx.net release that builds on our 1.0 release with a handful of new …
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Compare Pipeline, Chain of Responsibility, and ASP.NET Core middleware by transformation, handler selection, continuation, ordering, and short-circuiting. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/09/07/pipeline-vs-chain-of-responsibility-vs-aspnet-core-middleware
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Integration tests are much more valuable when they run against real services. Instead of mocking a database or cache, you can start a temporary container, run your test, and dispose everything at the end. The Meziantou.Framework.TemporaryContainers package provides a lightweight API to manage disposable containers from …
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The Kotlin 2.4.20 release is out! Here are the main highlights: For the complete list of changes, see What’s new in Kotlin 2.4.20 or the release notes on GitHub. How to install Kotlin 2.4.20 The latest version of Kotlin is included in the latest versions of IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. To update to the […] Link to …
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This month’s Java Annotated Monthly brings you the latest Java news, a generous dose of AI-focused articles, Kotlin updates, and highlights from a variety of technologies and frameworks, plus plenty more worth adding to your reading list. Our featured writer, Aicha Laafia, takes a closer look at upcoming JEPs and …
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The first Early Access build for Rider 2026.3 is now available! It includes rainbow brackets, an easier way to set data breakpoints, a new Game Development plugin category, and filters in code completion. You can get the build from our website or through the Toolbox App. Here’s a look at what’s new. Rainbow brackets: …
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OpenAI, AIRPPU and WAN-IFRA launch an AI program to help Ukrainian news organizations strengthen innovation, resilience, and independent journalism. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/supporting-independent-journalism-in-ukraine
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Ardalis.Specification tutorial for version 9.3.1 with EF Core, covering DbContext and repository use, current APIs, limitations, and compatibility caveats. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/09/06/ardalisspecification-with-ef-core-current-guide
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Jakub Pachocki reflects on increasingly capable AI and the challenge of keeping it aligned. He calls for stronger safeguards and international coordination. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind
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Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai
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Object pooling can reduce allocations, lower GC pressure, and improve .NET performance—but only when used for the right workloads. In my latest subscriber article, I compare custom object pools with DefaultObjectPool and explain when pooling makes sense. Link to article: …
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Learn RAG evaluation metrics in .NET with Precision@K, Recall@K, MRR, nDCG, groundedness, and answer relevance for clearer, repeatable offline RAG diagnostics. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/09/05/rag-evaluation-metrics-in-net-measure-retrieval-and-grounding
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Four years ago this week, the first issue of this newsletter landed in a few hundred inboxes. Link to article: https://milanjovanovic.tech/blog/four-years-of-writing-every-week
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Learn how to deploy a multimodal WhatsApp ordering assistant that takes customer orders through text, voice notes, and real-time voice calls on a single business number, built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with Amazon Nova 2. The channel and ordering layers stay separate, and one shared memory recognizes each customer …
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Thank you for your interest in the new Azure SDKs! We release new features, improvements, and bug fixes every month. Subscribe to our Azure SDK Blog RSS Feed to get notified when a new release is available. You can find links to packages, code, and docs on our Link to article: …
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Long-running AI agents accumulate outdated memories that degrade quality and create compliance risk. Learn how to design memory lifecycle policies for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: scoring, consolidating, and pruning agent memories on a nightly AWS Step Functions workflow, with a deployable AWS CDK stack. Link to article: …
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Building a Physical AI system takes a continuous pipeline, not a single training job. This post shows how to run that model factory (synthetic data generation, post-training, and closed-loop evaluation with NVIDIA Cosmos 3) on a persistent, resilient Amazon SageMaker HyperPod cluster on Amazon EKS, with GPU goodput as …
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HyperPod InstantStart is an open source control plane that composes Amazon EKS orchestration with the managed capabilities of Amazon SageMaker HyperPod. It drives the same guarded operations through both a web interface and an AI agent, turning cluster bootstrap, capacity, training, inference, and storage into …
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